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- Bashing
- Flying
Southern Engineering Exam
University of Arkansas Engineering Department:
1. Calculate the smallest limb diameter on a persimmon tree that will
support a 10-pound possum.
2. Which of these cars will rust out the quickest when placed on blocks in
your front yard? A '65 Ford Fairlane Wagon, a '72 Chevrolet El Camino,
or a '66 Pontiac Tempest.
3. If your uncle builds a still which operates at a capacity of 5 gallons of
moonshine produced per hour, how many pickup truck radiators are required
to condense the product on a 97 degree day?
4. At a reduction in the gene pool variability rate of 7.5% per generation,
how long will it take a town which has been bypassed by the Interstate to
breed a country-western singer?
5. If every old refrigerator in the state, kept out on the porch, vented a charge of
R-12 simultaneously, what would be the percentage of the decrease in the
ozone layer, and will R-12 freon damage the Craftsman tools stored inside it?
6. A front porch is constructed of 2x8 pine on 24-inch centers with a field stone
foundation. The span is 8 feet and the porch length is half the length of the
single wide 38 ft. trailer. The porch floor is 1-inch rough sawn pine. When the
porch collapses, how many hound dogs will be killed?
7. An Arkansas man owns a house on 3.7 acres of land in a holler with an
average slope of 15%. The man has five children. Can each of his grown
children place a mobile home on the man's land and still have enough
property for their old washing machines to sit out in the front yard?
8. A 2-ton truck is overloaded and proceeding 900 yards down a steep slope
on a secondary road at 45 MPH. The brakes fail. Given average traffic
conditions on secondary roads, what is the probability that it will strike a
vehicle with a muffler?
9. A coal mine operates in an NFPA Class 1, Division 2 Hazardous Area.
The mine employs 120 miners per shift. How many cartons of unfiltered
Camels will be smoked during each shift?
10. A woodcutter has a chainsaw which operates at 2700 RPM. The density of
the pine trees in the plot to be harvested is 450 trees per acre. The plot is 2.5
acres in size. The average tree diameter is 14 inches. How many 6 Packs
will he drink before the trees are cut down?
University of Arkansas Engineering Department:
1. Calculate the smallest limb diameter on a persimmon tree that will
support a 10-pound possum.
2. Which of these cars will rust out the quickest when placed on blocks in
your front yard? A '65 Ford Fairlane Wagon, a '72 Chevrolet El Camino,
or a '66 Pontiac Tempest.
3. If your uncle builds a still which operates at a capacity of 5 gallons of
moonshine produced per hour, how many pickup truck radiators are required
to condense the product on a 97 degree day?
4. At a reduction in the gene pool variability rate of 7.5% per generation,
how long will it take a town which has been bypassed by the Interstate to
breed a country-western singer?
5. If every old refrigerator in the state, kept out on the porch, vented a charge of
R-12 simultaneously, what would be the percentage of the decrease in the
ozone layer, and will R-12 freon damage the Craftsman tools stored inside it?
6. A front porch is constructed of 2x8 pine on 24-inch centers with a field stone
foundation. The span is 8 feet and the porch length is half the length of the
single wide 38 ft. trailer. The porch floor is 1-inch rough sawn pine. When the
porch collapses, how many hound dogs will be killed?
7. An Arkansas man owns a house on 3.7 acres of land in a holler with an
average slope of 15%. The man has five children. Can each of his grown
children place a mobile home on the man's land and still have enough
property for their old washing machines to sit out in the front yard?
8. A 2-ton truck is overloaded and proceeding 900 yards down a steep slope
on a secondary road at 45 MPH. The brakes fail. Given average traffic
conditions on secondary roads, what is the probability that it will strike a
vehicle with a muffler?
9. A coal mine operates in an NFPA Class 1, Division 2 Hazardous Area.
The mine employs 120 miners per shift. How many cartons of unfiltered
Camels will be smoked during each shift?
10. A woodcutter has a chainsaw which operates at 2700 RPM. The density of
the pine trees in the plot to be harvested is 450 trees per acre. The plot is 2.5
acres in size. The average tree diameter is 14 inches. How many 6 Packs
will he drink before the trees are cut down?
